PSY 350 - Exam -2 Study Guide with complete solutions 2024_2025.
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Course
PSY 350
Institution
PSY 350
Self-presentation
Attempt to control other's impressions of ourselves
To acquire desirable resources
To help "construct" our self-images
To enable our social encounters to run more smoothly
Keeps ourselves safe
Acquire allies/friends
Acquire mates
Why do we self-present?
Dramat...
PSY 350 - Exam #2 Study Guide with
complete solutions 2024/2025
Self-presentation - ANSWER- Attempt to control other's impressions of ourselves
To acquire desirable resources
To help "construct" our self-images
To enable our social encounters to run more smoothly
Keeps ourselves safe
Acquire allies/friends
Acquire mates - ANSWER- Why do we self-present?
Dramaturgical perspective - ANSWER- To make social interactions smooth, there
are general social scripts.
Save Face - ANSWER- When reluctant to go against other's presentations, we let
them get away with public presentations that may not be accurate.
In the public eye
Greater self-awareness
When observers control something we desire
goal(s) are important to us
if we believe the observer does not hold a favorable impression of ourselves
when we're alone - ANSWER- When do people self-present?
Spotlight effect - ANSWER- overestimating others' noticing and evaluating our
appearance, performance, and blunders (as if we presume a spotlight shines on
us)
High self-monitors
Women who want to appear likable
, Men who want to appear dominant - ANSWER- Who is more likely to self-present?
Self-Monitoring - ANSWER- Tendency to be concerned with one's public image
What is ingratiation strategies and what is it for? - ANSWER- Goal: to appear
likable to others
1. Staging performances
2. Claim competence
3. Use trappings of competence
4. Make excuses for failure - ANSWER- What are self-promotional strategies and
what is it for?
self-handicapping - ANSWER- protecting one's self-image with behaviors that
create a handy excuse for later failure; a type of self promotional strategy
Goal: to convey status and power
1. Display artifacts of power/status
2. Conspicuous consumption
3. Personal associations
4. Nonverbal displays like body language - ANSWER- What is status and power-
enhancing strategies and what is it for?
BIRGing - ANSWER- "Basking in reflected glory." a strategy by which we
reinforce our positive self-concepts by identifying ourselves with successful
others
CORFing - ANSWER- "Cutting off reflected failure." the process of distancing
ourselves from unsuccessful, low-status others or events
when people have high competence motivation
when afraid of failure
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